April 16: A 6-year-old Bengal tiger named Baghdad gives birth to eight cubs over the Easter weekend at Marine World in Redwood City. The births set what is believed to be a new world's record for the number of baby tigers born at one time. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the last record was set in 1956 at the Dublin Zoo with the birth of seven cubs.

April 17: Point Reyes Light publishers and editors Cathy and David Mitchell win the Pulitzer Prize for public service for their investigative crusade against the Synanon Foundation, a $32.5 million tax-exempt corporation and cult.

April 18: About 200 people attend a ceremony to mark the change of the name of Funston Park to the George R. Moscone Recreation Center. The decision to rename the park prompted protests from a Marina neighborhood organization.

April 19: The Chronicle announces that for the second year in a row there will be a treasure hunt for a $1,000 gift bestowed by Emperor Norton. The treasure is a 7-inch golden medallion buried in an oak chest. The person who finds it must present the medallion at The Chronicle for 1,000 silver dollars.

April 20: A huge cache of narcotics, perhaps stolen from the prison infirmary, perhaps smuggled in from the outside, has been discovered within the walls of San Quentin Prison. Three prisoners have admitted involvement and have been placed in isolation while the investigation continues.

-- San Quentin officials report that their investigation has shown that narcotics were stolen from the prison's own infirmary.

April 22: The Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo will design and build the first of a new type of submarine. It is the first time that this shipyard, the oldest naval installation on the Pacific Coast, has been assigned the engineering of a prototype underwater craft.

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April 16: The San Francisco fishing boat Three Sisters runs ashore in a dense fog and wrecks north of Point Bonita. Captain Edward Buckley and engineer Ivor Mattson die in the wreck. The third member of the crew, Vasco Valero, is picked up unconscious on the rocks.

April 17: A group of citizens in Larkspur is working on a noise abatement plan that could put an end to the Saturday night dances at the Rose Bowl, a dance pavilion owned and operated by the Larkspur Fire Department. The department currently is supported by the funds from the dances. April 22: Harold E. Jones, director of research at the University of California Institute of Child Welfare, reports that children doing poor schoolwork and those most often exhibiting objectionable character traits are found to be those who attend motion picture shows frequently.